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                Unholy trinity in chemical weapons pact

 ttp://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,2919891%255E954,00.html

                            Chris Griffith
                                24sep01

As intelligence services try to prove who was behind the New York and
Washington attacks, the evidence is mounting that a secret pact was
forged between Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Sudan to wage a terrorist war
against the US. 

The pact, forged in 1998, led to Iraqi experts helping to build a
chemical weapons factory especially for bin Laden's terrorists in Sudan
and bin Laden and Saddam Hussein's Iraq co-operating to build several
others. 

In a paper for the US Congress's Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare, its chairman Yossef Bodansky said the chemical
weapons factory, in Soba, south-west of Sudan's capital Khartoum, was
built with Iraqi know-how for Islamic terrorists affiliated mainly with
bin Laden. 

Bodansky's paper shows a growing brashness of Iraqi involvement in
developing chemical weapons for terrorism in Sudan away from the prying
eyes of US planes patrolling the no-fly zone in Iraq.  It cites two
other ultra-modern chemical weapons factories built in Sudan with Iraq
expertise. 

One, at Kafuri, houses laboratories developing chemical weapons, nerve
agents and biological weapons, while another in the Mayu area has
production lines for warheads, bombs and canisters utilising chemical
agents.  They were built three years ago. 

Iraq and bin Laden both separately forged links with Sudan, in north
Africa, a decade ago. 

The Iraqi-Sudanese co-operation began during the 1990 Gulf War when Iraq
sent guns equipped with chemical shells, SCUD-B launchers and missiles
to Sudan to strike Egypt and Saudi Arabia. 

The fact these SCUDs originated from Iraq was confirmed in the mid-1990s
when the Russians, after being asked to fix them, recognised the serial
numbers were from missiles sold to Iraq. 

After the Gulf war, Iraq needed to protect its chemical weapons
development from US forces patrolling the Gulf. 

This escalated in 1997 when Iraq moved weapons it had stored in Yemen to
Sudan, and in the same year, weapons of mass destruction. 

Bin Laden's involvement with Sudan began in 1991 after he was expelled
from Saudi Arabia for his anti-government activities.  He spent five
years living in Sudan building a complex web of business and financial
interests before returning to Afghanistan. 

Intelligence reports claim the secret pact between Sudan, Iraq and bin
Laden was made in October 1998 and there are numerous reports of
meetings between bin Laden and Iraqi officials since. 

Some of this evidence emerged in early 1999, when the Paris-based Arab
language newspaper Al Watan Al Arabi reported that western diplomatic
and security sources had warned in secret reports that Iraq, Sudan and
bin Laden were co-operating to build several chemical and germ weapons
factories in Sudan financed by bin Laden and supervised by Iraqi experts
and technicians. 

It said the Baghdad-Khartoum-bin Laden deal was regarded as the biggest
act of co-ordination between extremist Islamic organisations and Baghdad
"for confronting the US, the common enemy".  Late in 1998, Italian paper
Corriere della Sera reported: "Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have
sealed a pact."


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